The Uttar Pradesh Child Commission rescued 95 children on Friday who were allegedly being illegally taken from Bihar to UP.
Sarvesh Awasthi, the chairperson of Ayodhya Child Welfare Committee (CWC), confirmed the news of children being rescued by CWC members upon receiving the information from Suchitra Chaturvedi, a member of UP Child Commission, ANI reported.
Awasthi claimed that the rescued children were between the age group of 4-12 years. “At around 9 am, UP Child Commission member Suchitra Chaturvedi called and said that from Bihar, minor children are being transported to Saharanpur illegally and that they were in Gorakhpur and will go via Ayodhya. We rescued the children and they were given food and medical assistance,” Awasthi said.
The Ayodhya CWC chairperson said that those people who brought the children had no consent letters from parents. “Children are between the ages of 4-12 and most of them said they didn’t know where they were being taken. Parents are being contacted and children will be handed over once they arrive. There were a total of 95 children”, Awasthi added.
Before this incident, a group of children was rescued in Gorakhpur by Uttar Pradesh State Child Commission as they were being sent from Bihar to madrasas across the state.
Chairperson of the National Commission for Protection Of Child Rights, Priyank Kanoongo, posted on X, “Innocent children who were being sent to madrasas in other states from Bihar have been rescued in Gorakhpur with the help of Uttar Pradesh State Child Commission on the instructions of @NCPCR.”
Kanoongo further added that the Constitution of India has given the right to education to every child. “It is compulsory for every child to go to school. In such a situation, taking poor children to other states and keeping them in madrasas to earn donations on the basis of religion is a violation of the Constitution,” he added.
(with inputs from ANI)
